Last week I made a installer version for ViewPlus and as the Tika dependency was not listed on the BrailleBlaster website or in the README files I did not include it. There was no compilation issues so I take it that it must not be used and thus can be safely removed.
However, this does raise a wider question: What formats do we wish to support? Probably really what I am getting at, do we wish to support non-XML formats such as the old binary Word document format (.doc) or PDF being another popular format I can think of. I feel it would be unwise to ignore these formats, even if we are converting them to an XML format behind the scenes, I feel the user might expect to just be able to open some of these non-XML formats.
Michael Whapples On 28/05/2013 06:00, John J. Boyer wrote:
I think it should be removed. If we want to import docx files we can use the content document which is xml and which liblouisutdml can handle. Making a semantic-action file for it would be easy. John On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:50:47AM -0400, Vic Beckley wrote:Keith, This may not be possible but I was thinking that since we aren't using the tika-app-1.1.jar file now that it could be removed from the package before the beta is released. The entire installer for Windows is about 30 MB, with that one file taking up approximately 25 MB of that total size. Removing it would significantly reduce the size of BrailleBlaster. I don't know at this point if the decision has been made whether we are going to use this file later on or not. Any thoughts? Best regards from Ohio, Vic
